If one thermometer is good, is more better??
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Here,
on a corrugated metal Quonset hut type shop building in Lacrosse WA,
I spotted these five thermometers.
Is more better?
In this case, no.
One reads ‘0,’ one reads ’59,’ another reads about ’52,’
yet another reads ’48’ and the last reads ’58.’
Take your pick, don’t like 59,
and you think it is cooler if you call it 48, it’s up to you!
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I’m over in the Palouse for a couple days before work starts next Monday
and school on September 4.
I’ve gotten some shots of the wheat harvest,
but most of the region has already been harvested.
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I left Sunday night about 21:45,
stopped to get a latte before getting on the freeway.
While stopped in traffic waiting for a draw bridge to close,
I was rear ended by another car.
My car isn’t terribly damaged,
and I only seem to have a sprained finger (weird huh?).
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I got out to look at my car,
she got out of her car (a Mini Cooper), she says ‘Are we good?’
I said ‘No, I have damage, we need to pull over and exchange information.’
She gets back in her car, turns off the headlights and bolts the scene.
I call 911, and proceed off the draw bridge to meet the Washington State Patrol to make a statement.
Fortunately, I got her license plate number.
The patrolman took my statement and then went to her house
and called me about an hour later.
He said she said ‘she couldn’t remember hitting anyone,’
‘I don’t have insurance,’ and ‘no, you cannot look at my car.’
There it is, the reason she ran.
But hit and run is a serious traffic offense, so is not having insurance.
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My insurance company said they’ll call me after I get back
to start the repair process.
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See you tomorrow for Rurality Blog Hop!
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Today,
is ‘Tuesday Muse‘ over at my friend Nancy’s place,
‘A Rural Journal.
I use a weather site that takes the weather from five other sites and presents an average from those. The people that owns these thermometer must be clever people! Or not.
That’s too funny!
the thermometers are kind of quaint. the hit and run butthead is not!
What an irresponsible little twit! I’m glad you got her license plate and I hope the police can do something.
On a brighter note, I love the collection of thermometers, my favorite is the bottom right. :)
It’s like our clocks at work. But when it comes to Friday at 5pm the first one to hit it wins.
Love the look of these thermometers…what a great find!
I am glad that you are okay. Getting in car accident is scary enough without the person bolting. As far as the photo I love those old corporate thermometers. I remember when you would all kinds of free “junk” for shopping at certain businesses. Now they are worth a lot of money in antique stores.
Good grief. I am thinking that you must be as tired of folks who will not step up and take responsibility for their actions (or inaction) as I am. So glad that you don’t have whiplash neck, honey. Love the thermometers!
I like your thermometer shot. I hope you get some satisfaction from the police.
Love the thermometers. Funny that they’re all different. Guess it’s just having the collection and not accuracy, that counts.
Sorry about the hit and run. Glad you weren’t hurt. Some people just won’t take responsibility for their actions.
Hope it all works out for you.
When I was working, I was rear-ended two separate times non-insured drivers (they didn’t have a driver’s license or registration for their cars either, but that’s another story.) Aggravating!